INSIGHT UPSC QUIZ

The highest mountain peak of the Himalayas is situated in—

A group of inter-connected islands is known as  .

Which one of the following is not the result of underground water action?

Which of the following is a renewable resource?

‘Flash floods’ are associated with:

If there is no carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere, the temperature of earth’s surface would be:

5. The light from the Sun reaches the Earth in about—

Which of the following absorbs part of the insolation and preserves earth’s radiated heat?

“Tidal forest” is otherwise called:

Consider the following statements with reference to ‘Blue Stragglers’:

1. It is a class of stars on globular clusters that is smaller than the rest of the stars.

2. They are formed through the mass transfer from a close binary companion star and through collision of two stars. 

3. The Milky Way's largest and brightest globular is Omega Centauri.

Which of the statements given above is/are NOT correct?